The Bioshock PC demo has been made available via a Fileplanet leak. Readme …

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PC gamers have been breathlessly awaiting the PC demo for Bioshock to see how well this monster of a game will run on their systems. While the demo was supposed to be released this evening at 7 p.m. EST, Fileplanet had something of a leak in its servers, and a few enterprising individuals were able to get the demo. Seconds later, it's all over the Internet. The demo can be found in the normal places, although I have not yet downloaded the demo myself to test it. The notes from the individual who created the torrent state:

This is the Demo version of BioShock for PC, this zip file is the unencrypted one taken from fileplanet's servers. I am uploading it here because FilePlanet seems to have fixed the workaround for getting this demo. My upload is not spectacular, so if you have the same zip file, untouched, from FilePlanet's server, please help seed!

There you have it. Many gamers on our own fora have successfully downloaded the demo and are sharing their thoughts and, while everyone is having a good time playing it, you will need a mid to high-end box to really enjoy what Bioshock has to offer. There are also some troubling things in the readme file, such as:

3.7 DX10 Issues
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If you experience graphics
corruption or stability issues on Windows Vista using ATi DirectX 10
hardware (eg Radeon HD 2xxx), please launch the game in DirectX 9 mode.
This is done by right clicking the Bioshock icon in the game explorer
and selecting "Play-DirectX9".

The rumors also state that we can expect new NVIDIA drivers to ensure smooth play on GeForce cards but, without being able to look at the readme for myself, I can't vouch for that personally. I'm grabbing the file now and should have thoughts posted as soon as possible. Happy hunting!